[Nix-dev] Emacs 24

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 13/06/12 16:19, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

>> Does anyone
>> know how Emacs uses these dependencies? What kind of capabilities does one gain
>> by adding support for Imagemagick?
> 
> It’s used for image-mode, image-dired, and Doc-view, among others, so it
> needs to stay IMO.

Since this adds about 400 MB to the closure of Emacs (compared to 23.4), I'm in
favour of disabling these dependencies by default.  The rare people who want to
view PDFs in Emacs rather than a proper PDF viewer can always enable them.

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